Academic dishonesty has become a major problem in education to date. This recent study tries to examine the academic dishonesty on graduate students. There are two kinds of factors encouraging graduate students to cheat. First, the factors that can be controlled by students, such as lack of preparation before exams, fatigue, or lack of time to learn. Second, the factors that are beyond the students’ control, such as health problems, tasks or exams that are too difficult, or friends’ cheating. Researcher predicts that self-regulated learning and muraqabah can be solutions to deal with these factors.

In self-regulated learning, students can manage their learning effectively so as to avoid problems of lack of preparation before exams, fatigue, or lack of study time. Thus, these controllable factors of academic dishonesty are expected to be overcame by student’s improving self-regulated learning. Meanwhile, muraqabah, defined as awareness of God’s supervision, is predicted to overcome the uncontrollable factors of academic dishonesty. Despite having difficulties during the exam or seeing other students cheat, students who believe that they are being watched by God should refrain from cheating. So, researcher tries to investigate the role of self-regulated learning and muraqabah in reducing academic dishonesty of graduate students.

This study used quantitative approach. Participants to be involved are Muslim graduate students. They will be selected through convenience sampling technique. Three instruments will be used for measuring variables: academic dishonesty scale, self-regulated learning scale, and muraqabah scale. The data will be analyzed statistically by regression analysis technique. The assumed result of this study is self-regulated learning and muraqabah will be negatively correlated with academic dishonesty on the participants.

Keyword: academic dishonesty, graduate students, self-regulated learning, muraqabah, Islamic psychology